Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

I know who I am and what I do.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

LeBron knows exactly who he is.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

What thou art, that thou art.

I desire therefore I exist.